Record Number of Contradictions?

Powerline's John Hinderaker has pointed out the incredible number of contradictions contained in the President's address to Congress Wednesday evening. Here is one example:

Instead of honest debate, we have seen scare tactics.

Then, a few minutes later:

Everyone in this room knows what will happen if we do nothing. Our deficit will grow. More families will go bankrupt. More businesses will close. More Americans will lose their coverage when they are sick and need it most. And more will die as a result.

The President first accused his opponents of using scare tactics; then he proceeded to use scare tactics. Did he think we would fail to notice? How about this contradiction?

[I]f you are among the hundreds of millions of Americans who already have health insurance through your job, Medicare, Medicaid, or the VA, nothing in this plan will require you or your employer to change the coverage or the doctor you have. Let me repeat this: nothing in our plan requires you to change what you have.

Then he said:

[I]nsurance companies will be required to cover, with no extra charge, routine checkups and preventive care, like mammograms and colonoscopies - because there's no reason we shouldn't be catching diseases like breast cancer and colon cancer before they get worse.

So which is it - no change in coverage or a mandating a change in coverage?

I think one more should make the point. In this one the President says that young people might choose to opt out of coverage and then he changes his mind one more time.

Now, even if we provide these affordable options, there may be those - particularly the young and healthy - who still want to take the risk and go without coverage.

Then he said:

That's why under my plan, individuals will be required to carry basic health insurance - just as most states require you to carry auto insurance.

Once again I ask what are we supposed to believe - able to opt out, not able to opt out? Would somebody make up their mind?

This all makes me wonder what is really going on in the Obama administration. Do they think we are so stupid we won't catch the contradictions or are they so incompetent that they can't catch them before the President goes on national television? In any case do we really want to trust such people?